The two best players in the world played a match against the spectacular Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina’s province of Río Gallegos.
The Spanish Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, numbers 1 and 2 respectively of the ATP world rankings, played an exhibition match on Friday in a field mounted on a ferry meters from the Perito Moreno Glacier in Patagonia Argentina.
” I was just in one of the most spectacular places I have seen , the Perito Moreno,really have to visit! ” Published Nadal through his Twitter account .
“I never thought I would find a place so wonderful , it was a fantastic experience,” Djokovic said.
The exhibit , called ” Tennis Millennial Ice ” was performed on a ferry where a tennis court was assembled . There, the players showed their skills in the context of one of the world’s landscapes more amazement .
“It is very important to this type of activities that promote our country to the world,” said Minister Enrique Meyer.
The top two in world tennis I played a few minutes to board the vessel in the Argentine Lake with the backdrop of the glacier, an ice dam of 257 km2 with a wall 5 kilometers long and 60 meters high , located in the tourist town of El Calafate.
The exhibition called ” Tennis Millennial Ice ” was organized by the Ministry of Tourism in the framework of the visit of Nadal and Djokovic , who play this weekend in Argentina a series of friendly duels that include the Argentine exnúmero 3 ATP, David Nalbandian retired .
Meanwhile , Novak Djokovic was pleased by the invitation extended by the Ministry that allowed this ” fantastic experience.”
The Perito Moreno , one of the biggest tourist attractions in Argentina , is one of the largest glaciers of the 356 that make up the Parque Los Glaciares and is visited by hundreds of tourists from around the world each year.
Tomorrow, Nadal will face Nalbandian in exhibition rematch of Argentina in Cordoba on Thursday won 6-4 7-6 ( 6).
The party, which will be the last of the former member of the ‘ Legion Argentina ‘ before finally hanging up the racquet, will be played at the stadium mounted in La Rural , the Argentina capital.
On Sunday, on the same stage , will face Nadal Djokovic, nearly two weeks of defining both staged in London for the ATP World Tour Finals , in which the Serbian won .
The landing of both figures is produced as part of a South American tour that took them through Lima ( Peru ) and Santiago (Chile ) .